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German civilians identify the bodies of 71 political prisoners exhumed from a mass grave on Wenzelnberg near Solingen-Ohligs.

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    German civilians identify the bodies of 71 political prisoners exhumed from a mass grave on Wenzelnberg near Solingen-Ohligs.
    German civilians identify the bodies of 71 political prisoners exhumed from a mass grave on Wenzelnberg near Solingen-Ohligs. The victims, most of whom were taken from Luettringhausen prison, were shot and buried by the Gestapo following orders to eliminate all Reich enemies just before the end of the war.

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    German civilians identify the bodies of 71 political prisoners exhumed from a mass grave on Wenzelnberg near Solingen-Ohligs.

    The victims, most of whom were taken from Luettringhausen prison, were shot and buried by the Gestapo following orders to eliminate all Reich enemies just before the end of the war.
    Date
    1945 April 30
    Locale
    Solingen-Ohligs, [Prussian Rhineland; North Rhine-Westphalia] Germany
    Photo Credit
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Arnold Bauer Barach

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    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    Provenance: Arnold Bauer Barach
    Source Record ID: Collections: 1989.27
    National Archives and Records Administration, College Park
    Copyright: Public Domain
    Provenance: Arnold Bauer Barach
    Source Record ID: 111-SC-205350 (Album 3209)

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